I was recently listen to a Turkish radio programme - not understanding it but listening to it!!! I was sure that I heard the word "evetler" a few times which seems to be the plural of "evet".

Doing a google search suggests that it is a word in reasonably common usage but I can't work it out from any of the texts I can find

What does it mean and when and where might it be used???
It is just a more polite way of saying "yes"?

evetlemek

/ı/ to verify, confirm; to affirm.

maybe it comes from this
:-S

I havent heard such a verb "evetlemek"
also i have never heard "evetler"

may it be something different?

if it was a comedy show, maybe the speaker was trying to be funny so maybe telling something stupid... could it be?

The first explanation comes to my mind about "evetler" is, it could be used when something is opened to voting, polling. Forexample, should Turkey be accepted to EU? Yes or No?

And we can make up these sentences about it:
-Evetler hayırlardan çok.
-Evetler %70, hayırlar %30.
-Evetleri ve hayırları sayalım. (Let's count the yes and no)

It's not wrong calip!

I've heard and read it.
It's very rarely used, but still it's a correct word, it means you accept something, you agree etc.
Forexample:
"Başıyla evetlemek", to say yes with shaking your head.

I was born and went to school here Maybe,it's because I don't read a lot, but when I come across a new word, I give a lot of attention and look it up in the dictionary, and try to put it in my head till I learn the word, and ofcourse its usage. And there're still a lot more to learn.

Yes, most of us (including me) use just the same few hundred words in our daily life, but still there's always a place to show our wide vocabulary, and when the time comes it helps so much, because more words mean more efficient expression, there's no other way (except some situations) to express ourselves better. That's why I feel myself very insufficient and silly in a foreign language, and I become frustrated because I cannot express myself that well!

"evetler" means what? are they approves? by saying evet-ler and lar ?

"Evetlemek" sounds too forced and too artificial to me. I wouldn't use it. Instead I would use "onaylamak". But it's a kind of modern and experimental word.

Then, I doubt about the number of words in Turkish, I cannot find it now, but it has to be more than 10000!

Yes, 'onaylamak' is a common verb whereas 'evetlemek' is forced, artificial and experimental. I doubt %1 of Turks have ever used it.

Thanks - I will se onaylamak then

'evetler' means the plural of 'yes'.

evet: yes
-ler: plural suffix

Assuming there is an election and there is more yes than no so we would say:

Evetler hayırlardan daha çok.

 yes evet can be plural

oylamada, evetler hayýrlardan fazlaydý means ya was greater than nay in the election.

senin bu evetlerinden býktým. means I have been bored from your Yes´es . He says a lot of yes answers

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I was recently listen to a Turkish radio programme - not understanding it but listening to it!!! I was sure that I heard the word "evetler" a few times which seems to be the plural of "evet". Doing a google search suggests that it is a word in reasonably common usage but I can´t work it out from any of the texts I can find What does it mean and when and where might it be used??? It is just a more polite way of saying "yes"?

We have the plural for yes and no in English also. I use it often , as a native speaker, and so do many of my friends, etc. Like for example in a poll we could say, there are more ´yeses´ than ´no´s´ or ´there are alot of yeses to this question´. It´s probably not gramatically correct but we use it often so it could be the same in Turkish, however, I´m not sure.

Also, the few hundred words in the vocab is something I´ve noticed also.  Talking in turkish with people my age (the university youth, mainly.) I find it very confusing because alot of the sentences they make are totally incorrect, and hard for me to understand as a learner because in english, I would use a different word, but in Turkish they keep using the same words for different meanings. Just something I´ve picked up in the couple months I´ve been trying to speak turkish. (:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary-The usual plural of no is noes.

(and I would spell the plural of yes ´yesses´ but ´yeses´ is also correct.)